General Insurance Co. of America v. O'DAY

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called Insurance Company, was defendant in the trial court, and was the insurer of the owner of an automobile involved in an accident in Adams County, July 13, 1957, while being driven by Jack Walter Kortmeyer, a nonresident of this state.

Defendants in error O’Days brought an action in the District Court of Adams County on November 19, 1957, against Kortmeyer, a resident of Montana, to recover damages claimed by them as a result of the accident. Upon failure of Kortmeyer to appear, judgments by default were entered against him April 14, 1958, in favor of the…